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Russ

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What's on your bucket list?
« on: November 11, 2013, 09:53:10 PM »
I took some time to draft one over the last week or so, and am curious as to what other Mustachians might have on theirs. Share below!

Here's mine*, in the order I thought it in:

operate a pedicab
play music for an audience of 50+ people
record an album
open a food place
see the northern (or southern) lights
do 100 pushups in one go
" 20 pullups
" 200 situps
throw a warehouse party
host a  dinner party (not for holidays)
drive a motorcycle
consume only water for a week
write a fan letter
learn to surf
learn to do wheelies on my bicycle
go sailing with my dad
go on a road trip with a friend
go on a dad & russ trip
hitchhike
pick up a hitchhiker
do a backflip
achieve financial independence
quit a job
ride a train (metro doesn't count) completed 7/14
go to a naked party
go busking
live abroad for a year
live in a van
build my own home
make an acceptable handpan
hike the Appalachian Trail
learn to ride a unicycle
see Earth from space
hold my own in a dance battle
play in a band
go one week in silence
two chicks at the same time
have sex outside
live with only what I can carry on my back for one year
witness a solar eclipse
become good friends with a wandering dog
make a pair of shoes
picnic in a graveyard
learn to skateboard
see a wild bear
pay for the person behind me in a line
do a handstand
crowdsurf
spend a week on the street
go streaking
grow a beard (completed 12/6/13)
crash a fancy party
go trainhopping
try a nontraditional sleep schedule
go a week without seeing another person
sleep under the stars (sans tent)
climb a mountain
take a sick day when I'm not sick
help someone do something they have always wanted to do
go on a trip planned by someone else without knowing where I'm going
spend a night in jail
stay overnight in a stranger's house
have a six pack
go a month without wearing shoes
go on a blind date
watch someone die
attend a funeral (not my own)
die myself
raw vegan for a month
climb an active volcano
see the stars from the Atacama Desert
find and eat wild mushrooms
work for tips
have working knowledge of a foreign language
buy a round for the entire bar
sleep overnight in a hammock
stand under a waterfall
sleep in an igloo
get into a fist fight
meet someone who has had a significant impact on how I choose to live my life (e.g. MMM, short list of musicians, etc.)
sleep in a treehouse (or just a tree)
obtain dual citizenship
make s'mores over lava
walk 20 miles in a day
see a wild penguin
have the collective worth of all my possessions be <$1000 (money not included)
participate in a drum circle
introduce myself to somebody by my middle name completed 7/14
run into someone that i met on one continent on another continent without any prior planning (added 12/7/13)
become familiar with every band listed in LCD Soundsystem's "Losing My Edge" (added 12/11/13)

Made using guidelines from Raptitude, being a little flexible with the "avoid goals that depend on luck or other people’s co-operation" rule.

*this list is subject to change ;-)
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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2013, 10:26:06 PM »
Interesting!  I've done a bunch of those, tried and failed a couple, don't even know what a handpan is (okay, I cheated with google), and definitely don't recommend getting close enough to lava to make s'mores (although you could probably at least melt the chocolate from a distance).

We overlap on the "see Earth from space".   
I want to stay in a cave (or somewhere with no natural light) long enough to find out how long my natural circadian rhythm is. 
Fly a plane.
Live alone for a week.

I suck at this, but it's an interesting exercise.

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2013, 07:16:23 AM »
Making a bucket list is on my post FIRE to-do list.

Will enjoy seeing what everyone else here comes up with.

Many of mine/the wife's has to do with traveling and seeing things from ancient cultures:
The Pyramids of Giza, Angkor Wat, Petra, Machu Picchu, etc.
I am a former teacher who accumulated a bunch of real estate, retired at 29, spent some time traveling the world full time and am now settled with three kids.
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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2013, 10:02:12 AM »
I keep a blog around this subject at http://thisbucketlist.wordpress.com, lots of items to complete still but there are a couple of nice ones I have managed to tick off already. Always looking for more cool experiences to add.

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2013, 11:04:25 AM »
YO RUSS:

> find and eat wild mushrooms

Come springtime, let's do it. My girlfriend and I went to a mushroom foray with the Wisconsin Mycological society. Didn't find anything edible *that* time, but it's pretty common.

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2013, 12:49:47 PM »
Many of mine/the wife's has to do with traveling and seeing things from ancient cultures:
The Pyramids of Giza, Angkor Wat, Petra, Machu Picchu, etc.

Wow!  I think your FI travel will be a lot more fancypants than mine. :)

The one place I really want to go before I die is Banff National Park.

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #6 on: November 12, 2013, 12:56:26 PM »
YO RUSS:

> find and eat wild mushrooms

Come springtime, let's do it. My girlfriend and I went to a mushroom foray with the Wisconsin Mycological society. Didn't find anything edible *that* time, but it's pretty common.

awesome, I'm in!

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #7 on: November 12, 2013, 01:07:41 PM »
What’s interesting to me is how many I’ve completed of yours (or others):

play music for an audience of 50+ people => Middle school, high school, college, post college…  High school as soloist.
see the northern (or southern) lights => Lived in Alasks 4-6th grade
do 100 pushups in one go => gymastics growing up
" 20 pullups => Gymnastics growing up.  Held record for pullups in middle school, when I got the presidential fitness award.  Shuttle run, tricky.  Also did a stupid challenge in college of 1000 pullups before graduation.  Joined it late, 10 days before graduation…  Luckily I and the pipe in the dorm hallway survived.
" 200 situps => Gymnastics growing up
host a  dinner party (not for holidays) => Post college
write a fan letter => 4th grade requirement
learn to surf => In grad school
go sailing with my dad => Yep as a kid.
do a backflip => Gymnastics growing up.  Um, do you mean without spot?  It’s fairly hard.  Can you use a trampoline?
quit a job => For grad school
ride a train (metro doesn't count) => College, in europe
hold my own in a dance battle => Half credit, for doing so in a swing dance circle
play in a band => Bet you don’t mean this type band, but middle school, high school etc.
go one week in silence =>  HHAHAHA.  My family would laugh so hard at this.  Never going to happen.
have sex outside => college
witness a solar eclipse => Alaska
see a wild bear => Alaska
do a handstand => Gymnastics growing up
go streaking => College a few times.  Um, even immortalized (all the interesting bits covered up in the photo) in my college alumni magazine for a canoeing trip from college to the ocean we took.
climb a mountain => Many times.  Also climbed one to walk on a glacier (Alaska) and carried a whitewater kayak on my shoulder for another. 
take a sick day when I'm not sick => *cough*  But I’ve only taken about 5 sick days in 10 years
help someone do something they have always wanted to do => I hope so!
attend a funeral (not my own) => Sadly, several
have working knowledge of a foreign language => Lived in France 3 months with a French family during college
stand under a waterfall => Caribbean in 2008
sleep in an igloo => Yep.  Bet you’ve done this already.  Igloo is just the Eskimo word for house.  It doesn’t actually mean something as specific as “rounded ice house.”
get into a fist fight => High school.  I sucked.   

die myself => Pretty sure you’ll manage this one!

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #8 on: November 12, 2013, 01:31:41 PM »
What’s interesting to me is how many I’ve completed of yours (or others):

Sounds like you've done a lot of interesting things!

I've actually technically done many of mine as well but don't count them for a various reasons, the main one being that I want to do them deliberately rather than by default. For example, being in a band / playing music for people (yeah a concert band would count). It was a given that I would participate in those things when I was in school. Now it would be a choice.

Thanks for the tip about igloos ;-)

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #9 on: November 12, 2013, 03:55:15 PM »
The thing about bucket lists, is they seem to keep growing. Anytime I tick off something, I end up adding two more.

I've been to 24 countries, my 4yr old has 18 (if you count Hong Kong separate from China; since someone living in China needs to cross a border and have a passport to go into Hong Kong, I'm counting it). Did a lot of stuff in Alaska (Northern Lights, seeing wild bear/caribou/moose/buffalo/etc., went to the Arctic Ocean, walked on a glacier, was in the Arctic Circle during perpetual daylight even though it was cloudy, etc.). Been living in another country (Australia) for nearly two years now, gonna make it at least four. Converted a bookmobile to an RV that we lived out of for the better part of a year. Crossed the equator by plane and ship. Saw several Mayan pyramids (climbed up Chichen Itza).

Sometimes I think my life's boring. Then I give myself a good slap.

Here's some of what's left on my list:

- Drive (from the US) to the southern tip of South America.
- Go on an Antarctic cruise (goes well with above)
- See the Egyptian pyramids
- Go on an African safari
- Spend some time in England, preferably around Christmastime. Bonus if I have to pay a tv tax!
- Spend some time in Europe. Maybe RVing, or just aimlessly wandering around. France and Italy are a must.
- Get a job with cool coworkers. Don't care much what the setting is.
- Go cross-country in the US. I did drive from Tennessee to Alaska and back, but I want to go to California and hit all the areas in between (Vegas, Grand Canyon, various other national parks, Houston Texas so I can go to DoubleDave's pizza again).


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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #10 on: November 12, 2013, 05:06:18 PM »
Hike the Appalachian Trail
Hike the Pacific Crest Trail
Hike long trails in other countries
Slow travel around US
Slow travel around world
Own paid for rental property
FIRE

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #11 on: November 12, 2013, 05:11:27 PM »
Considering we're all going to die at some point, every list is a "bucket list." :)

Becoming financially independent is the biggest goal on mine. From that will flow other to-do lists (like enter a video in the film festival in Antarctica, buy a teardrop trailer and follow the old Route 66, and buy an apartment in Paris). For now, just having freedom is enough.

Great topic.

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« Reply #12 on: November 12, 2013, 05:17:03 PM »
I like this idea....I try to have a bucket list for every new decade :)
In my 40's I would like to:

~Run a 5K marathon
~Go to Hawaii and watch the sunrise from top of the volcano
~Master using the saws that my DH has and make a piece of furniture
~Become a Personal Trainer
~Write a book
~Save/Invest 200K
~Go to Costa Rica and zip line in the Amazon

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« Reply #13 on: November 12, 2013, 07:51:48 PM »
What’s interesting to me is how many I’ve completed of yours (or others):

Sounds like you've done a lot of interesting things!

I've actually technically done many of mine as well but don't count them for a various reasons, the main one being that I want to do them deliberately rather than by default. For example, being in a band / playing music for people (yeah a concert band would count). It was a given that I would participate in those things when I was in school. Now it would be a choice.

Thanks for the tip about igloos ;-)

Yep, dad in the Coast Guard who did a lot of interesting things (there's a blockbuster movie out about one of them :)) and took us interesting places, plus parents who said yes when I said crazy things like I wanted to join swim team at age 16 or go to college early while in high school made for some fun memories.  But it's interesting that you say for you it was done by "default" and not by choice while in school.  I was never pressured into activities then.  My choice for example, to be in concert band, pep bands, marching band, orchestra, community band, musicals in high school...yeah I had some fun then virtually quit cold turkey.

My problem with a bucket list is that it's always evolving as I come up with things I want to do and realize I don't care so much about others.  But I love to read the ideas of others.  My off the top current list is short: write a book and travel the world. 

P.S. I recommend you cross off the 2 women at the same time, before you meet a potential spouse.  That often puts a damper on that item.

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« Reply #14 on: November 12, 2013, 08:06:14 PM »
P.S. I recommend you cross off the 2 women at the same time, before you meet a potential spouse.  That often puts a damper on that item.

note that "get married" isn't on the list yet, although I understand it's the kind of thing that can sneak up on you

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« Reply #15 on: November 12, 2013, 08:11:31 PM »
I made a fairly crazy one a few years back... I don't have to hit everything on it to be happy, but it's something to get a bit of inspiration from:

Strikethroughs are done, bolds are in progress

TRAVEL EXPERIENCES (excl. eating)
1.   Live in a foreign country for over two years
2.   Visit Mont St. Michel in France
3.   Visit the Blue Mosque and Cistern Basilisk in Istanbul
4.   Visit the Coliseum and Vatican in Rome, Italy
5.   Visit the Parthenon in Greece
6.   Get inside a pyramid in Egypt
7.   Visit Barcelona, Spain
8.   Visit Giverny in the Spring

9.   Set foot on 7 continents (done: Africa, North America, Europe. Planning: Asia. To do: South America, Antarctica, Australia. Don’t stay too long in Antarctica.)
10.   Take Husband to Notre-Dame’s crypt and inside the cathedral + to the Sainte-Chapelle
11.   Visit museums of Cluny, Guimet, Palais de Tokyo, and Quai Branly

12.   Attend the Festival d’Avignon
13.   Drive cross country (US)
14.   Go hiking in the Grand Canyon
15.   Go to Carnival in Brazil
16.   Go inside the Statue of Liberty in New York
17.   Go visit the temples in Kyoto (during sakura would be nice)
18.   Watch tango dancers in Argentina
19.   Ride a horse in Mongolia
20.   Ride the Orient-Express from Venice to Istanbul
21.   Scuba dive somewhere awesome (the Great Barrier Reef, off the coast of Malaysia…)
22.   See Mardi-Gras parade in New Orleans
23.   See Mount Rushmore
24.   See Stonehenge
25.   See the Taj Mahal
26.   Sleep one night at the Ritz in Paris
27.   Spend a few days on Santorini
28.   Spend a night in a high-tech tower hotel in Shinzuku
29.   Spend a week hiking in New Zealand. LOTR tour, too!
30.   Spend a week in a Scottish castle: walk the moor, drink scotch, reread Wuthering Heights, write a crappy pseudo-Romantic poem
31.   Spend seven days traveling between the Amalfi and Adriatic coasts of Italy
32.   Visit Angkor Wat
33.   Visit Florence and Venice
34.   Visit Machu Picchu in Peru
35.   Visit Madagascar
36.   Visit Prague
37.   Visit Teotihuacan
38.   Visit the salt flats in Bolivia
39.   Walk the Great Wall of China (10 km)
40.   Walk through the souk in Marrakech and buy a beautiful silver bracelet

GENERAL
41.   Find a way to tame my hair
42.   Get a hot stone massage

43.   Obtain dual citizenship (France/US) (Permanent resident card obtained, eligible for citizenship)
44.   Remain happily married to Husband for 50 years (then renegotiate!) (currently: 5 years)

45.   Get off the computer at 7pm every night for 6 weeks
46.   Get the eyes lasered
47.   Rock purple hair for at least 6 weeks
48.   Enroll in a Big Sister program
49.   Find the French Caribbean island to which Husband and I will endlessly return in winter
50.   Give drum playing a serious try (at least once a week class + practice for 6 months)
51.   Give metal work a try (find a workshop or initiation)
52.   Go through a first-aid course
53.   Learn to transliterate (both ways) from the Greek alphabet
54.   Pass a civilian firearms training course (and pray never to use the knowledge)
55.   Ride a bike (without crying) in NYC or Paris for at least 20 minutes
56.   Spend a few days in the desert, walking
57.   Spend one week without talking
58.   Swim with dolphins
59.   Wake up at a set time and get up immediately for one year straight (7 jokers)
60.   Wake up at a set time and get up immediately for ten year straight (5 jokers per year)
61.   Try indoor skydiving
62.   Go vegetarian for 6 weeks

TRAVEL EATING
63.   Eat a full-scale gastro-molecular dinner
64.   Eat spaghetti a la vongole in Italy
65.   Eat in a good gastro-brasserie in Paris

66.   Eat at El Bulli: FAIL. RESTAURANT CLOSED.
67.   Attend a tea ceremony in Japan
68.   Eat poulet mafé in Africa (Sénégal)
69.   Eat in a 3-star Michelin restaurant in France
70.   Eat noodles, banana-leaf cooked fish and one unknown dish in Thailand
71.   Eat pho, banh-mi and one unknown dish in Vietnam
72.   Eat pizza in Naples
73.   Go to the fish market in Tokyo, buy fish, get it cooked on the spot (and eat it duh.)

INTELLECTUAL ACHIEVEMENTS
74.   Finish year 1 of grad school with all As
75.   Finish year 2 of grad school with all As
76.   Pass my oral exams

77.   Re-learn to read Latin (currently: doing vocab every day with anki)
78.   Defend my comparative project (currently: research phase)

79.   Get back to conversational German (currently: doing vocab every day with anki)
80.   Get an article-published at a peer-reviewed journal
81.   Defend a PhD thesis and become Me, PhD
82.   Become a published author of fiction
83.   Learn to read Italian

HEALTH/ FITNESS
84.   Do 1 pull-up
85.   Do 20 full pushups in a row (just restarted on that, the shame...)
86.   Learn to swim the front crawl including turning (swim 1 km in 20 minutes)
87.   Do full splits – front and side

MATERIALISM
88.   Have a wardrobe I love (learning to love simpler stuff)
89.   Pay off a house to live in (currently: paying off a mortgage…)

90.   Get one tailor-made silk dress
91.   Own artist-made crystal earrings
92.   Pay off a house with a heated pool (OR by a sea swimmable 6 months of the year!)

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #16 on: November 12, 2013, 08:22:11 PM »
57.   Spend one week without talking

Such fun to read these lists!  Never would imagine some of the items I've done as being a life list item (e.g. first aid).  Makes me rethink my experiences.  But seriously, what is it with the not talking!?

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« Reply #17 on: November 12, 2013, 08:29:55 PM »
Haha, well I like quiet a lot... So it's as much about me shutting up as about other people being silent too! And then perhaps concentrate on the non-verbal, of which there is not enough around me.

Also the challenge aspect!

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« Reply #18 on: November 12, 2013, 08:51:07 PM »
Why do you want to spend a night in jail, Russ?  O__o

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« Reply #19 on: November 12, 2013, 09:20:37 PM »
Why do you want to spend a night in jail, Russ?  O__o

I kinda "collect" places I've slept. Not all have been on purpose, but it's getting to the point where I will sleep somewhere just for the experience of it. The most exciting place so far has been lying down in the middle of 100,000 standing people (yes actually that many) at a Tom Petty concert. Woke up with a bruise on my torso in the middle of "American Girl"

Plus I think whatever gets me there would be an interesting story, and I like having interesting stories

But seriously, what is it with the not talking!?

Just to get a taste of what it's like. Silence for me also includes not listening to anything, which I know is impossible in a practical sense, but no radio, tv, listening to other people, etc.

I'm interested to see if my self-talk gets more or less active now that I'm thinking about it, but the original reason was more along the lines of "seems interesting, why not".

I made a fairly crazy one a few years back... I don't have to hit everything on it to be happy, but it's something to get a bit of inspiration from:

wow, what a list!

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51.   Give metal work a try (find a workshop or initiation)

what kind of metalwork? I took a machining class a few years ago and loved it enough that it's now a major part of my daily life. Seriously one of my favorite things.

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85.   Do 20 full pushups in a row (just restarted on that, the shame...)

https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/goal-100-pushups-200-situps-join-me!/
you can stop at 20 :-)

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MATERIALISM
88.   Have a wardrobe I love (learning to love simpler stuff)
89.   Pay off a house to live in (currently: paying off a mortgage…)

90.   Get one tailor-made silk dress
91.   Own artist-made crystal earrings
92.   Pay off a house with a heated pool (OR by a sea swimmable 6 months of the year!)

Thanks for sharing this despite the inevitable facepunch someone will give you haha

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« Reply #20 on: November 12, 2013, 09:44:38 PM »

what kind of metalwork? I took a machining class a few years ago and loved it enough that it's now a major part of my daily life. Seriously one of my favorite things.


Good question. I was thinking small-scale art-making when I wrote the list, say trophy-sized metal sculpture; but now in my fantasies the art has gotten human-sized. If I don't do it soon I may end up having to build a wrought-iron house or something.

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https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/throw-down-the-gauntlet/goal-100-pushups-200-situps-join-me!/
you can stop at 20 :-)


Yes I saw that... But I think I'm going to stay a lone gunner on that one. I have a genetic muscle weakness (not to the level of a disability, but I'm definitely not "normal" for anything requiring intense bursts of muscular activity), and I'm pretty self-conscious about it.

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MATERIALISM
88.   Have a wardrobe I love (learning to love simpler stuff)
89.   Pay off a house to live in (currently: paying off a mortgage…)

90.   Get one tailor-made silk dress
91.   Own artist-made crystal earrings
92.   Pay off a house with a heated pool (OR by a sea swimmable 6 months of the year!)

Thanks for sharing this despite the inevitable facepunch someone will give you haha
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Haha, I admit that I did hesitate to cut it out... Same with the INSANE eating out. But I stand by it!

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #21 on: November 12, 2013, 11:13:14 PM »
Such fun to read these lists!  Never would imagine some of the items I've done as being a life list item (e.g. first aid).  Makes me rethink my experiences.

I know! I already have a PR visa in Australia, just over two years I'll be eligible for citizenship. One of our kids will get dual citizenship next year before the rest of us.

I've been to five continents too, just have South America and Antarctica to go. I still want to do Africa properly, but we were there (and not just a layover) so it counts.

Been to Barcelona, had pizza there. Didn't pay to go into the Gaudi Cathedral, I should have (something about paying to get in a church rubbed me the wrong way, if I have a second chance I'll pony up the cash).

Been to Hobbiton, but didn't go on the LOTR tour (didn't have time, sadly). Maybe next time....

Camped in the middle of Sydney Harbour. That was pretty cool, would like to do it again.

Built a Dalek. Doesn't see much use, but I did take it to our son's school and to Bunnings once. Tried to take it on the sidewalk, but it met a hill and tipped over (hadn't thought to install a seat belt, ouch).

Riding a train? I went on the overnight between Sydney and Melbourne, cramped and tired. Maybe if I would have splurged on first class.

*Sigh* I'm getting too jaded.

A few more:

- Swim with dolphins (son's choice)
- Stay in a castle (wife's choice)
- Visit Great Wall of China
- Go to DisneySea in Tokyo (and of course some other stuff in Tokyo)
- Go back to Hong Kong and try to convince wife to stay in Chungking Mansions (I made the mistake of showing it to my wife, she didn't like the vibe on the ground floor). Ideally we'd stay in Hong Kong for at least a week.
- Go on a scooter trip to or from Alaska (I started in Fairbanks and made it to the Yukon Territory, but wimped out; shoulda gone earlier than September).

Ok, here's a big one:

Be part of an Antarctic team. I'll need semi-reliable access to the internet every so often, otherwise I'm pretty flexible. No idea what route I'd need to take to get there, but I think if I can get some kind of marketable skill, and maybe some experience being semi isolated (FIFO may be the ticket there)...who knows?

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #22 on: November 12, 2013, 11:26:53 PM »

But seriously, what is it with the not talking!?

Just to get a taste of what it's like. Silence for me also includes not listening to anything, which I know is impossible in a practical sense, but no radio, tv, listening to other people, etc.

I'm interested to see if my self-talk gets more or less active now that I'm thinking about it, but the original reason was more along the lines of "seems interesting, why not".

I've done this before on vacation time from work (I'm a teacher--longer breaks than most people). The hardest part was not talking to my cat, but I think I made it about a week before calling my grandmother to check in.

No life-changing revelations. It's just nice to know that I am great company for myself, I guess.

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #23 on: November 12, 2013, 11:37:22 PM »
Hmmm. Off the top of my head:
Have a baby.
Learn a second language (again - I've lost my schoolgirl French and German).
Learn to play a musical instrument.
Reach FI and retire while I'm still young and pretty :-)
Get really, really fit.
Volunteer with a not-for-profit where I keep old people company all day.
Learn to make basic wooden furniture.
Learn basic DIY (painting, fixing minor things - note that I don't pay for these services currently, I just also don't happen to be the one doing them).
Write a novel.

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #24 on: November 13, 2013, 06:01:28 PM »
Love the thread.

Here is the bucket list that I have found typed up.  Unfortunately, I cannot find the 100+ item list that I wrote by hand a few years ago.  I will continue to update as I remember items that I've left off.

[ ]Learn to surf
[ ]Go skydiving
[ ]Publish a book
[ ]Swim with the sharks
[X]Go skydiving
[ ]Ride an elephant
[ ]Climb Mt Everest
[ ]Finish a marathon
[ ]Complete an Iron Man
[ ]Bike the California Cost
[ ]See the northern lights
[ ]Visit every continent
[ ]See the 7 Wonders
[ ]Ride in a Hot Air Balloon
[ ]Go scuba diving
[ ]Go zorbing
[ ]Go camping where I can have a fire on the beach
[ ]Do 100 consecutive pushups
[ ]Do 20 consecutive dead hang pullups
[ ]Do 200 consecutive situps
[ ]Get married
[ ]Buy a house
[ ]Renovate a house
[ ]Become a dad
[ ]Save a life
[ ]Become a mentor
[ ]Get a song on the radio
[ ]Make a video game
[ ]Start a business and build it to bring in $1000 or more
[ ]Ride a mattress down a staircase
[ ]Go volcano boarding
[ ]Ride Insanity in Las Vegas
[ ]Go cliffdiving
[ ]Retire
[ ]Become debt free
[ ]Ride a jet ski
[ ]Attend a major sporting event (World Series, Superbowl, Olympics,etc.)
[ ]Ride a dolphin
[ ]Complete one No-Shave November

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #25 on: November 13, 2013, 07:19:50 PM »
My list is pretty paltry right now:

* start my own successful business and work from home
* run a 5K before the age of 40 (better get moving on it then)
* be in a position of being able to donate large amounts to National Jewish Hospital and our kids' awesome school
* write a short book
* spend three months traveling with our kids
* buy a rental house (maybe. not sure.)

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #26 on: November 13, 2013, 09:49:41 PM »
  • Start a dorodango collection of every vacation spot, then display them in shadow boxes at home with an explanation and a picture of the region and of my making the mud ball.
  • Espalier an entire orchard in my backyard.
  • Grow a shrub maze on my property.

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #27 on: November 13, 2013, 10:11:02 PM »
  • Start a dorodango collection of every vacation spot, then display them in shadow boxes at home with an explanation and a picture of the region and of my making the mud ball.
Amazing. Never heard of dorodango before, very thankful for the discovery!

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #28 on: November 14, 2013, 04:01:52 PM »
I've been on a quest to knock off bucket list items for the last few years.  I'm down to just one true bucket list item:

- Travel in space.

Not sure it'll be attainable in my life, and if it is, then I'll just want to set foot on another planet, etc.  Seems like a neverending quest.  :-)

Other than that, I'd like to get my weight back down to a certain number (1/3 of the way there now in the last year) and retire (should be barely *able* in 3 years, but if I go beyond that I continue to increase my safety net).  Actually not terribly excited about "retirement" as such.  Would just like to do less hours and more on my terms.  I like what I do for the most part.  :-)

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« Reply #29 on: November 14, 2013, 05:38:06 PM »
Get very, very fit.
Hike the entire Colorado Trail.
Mountain bike the entire Colorado Trail.
Hike the entire Appalachian Trail.
Bike across the US.
Learn and do basic woodworking/carpentry.
Visit Scotland.

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #30 on: November 16, 2013, 08:52:41 AM »
  • Start a dorodango collection of every vacation spot, then display them in shadow boxes at home with an explanation and a picture of the region and of my making the mud ball.
Amazing. Never heard of dorodango before, very thankful for the discovery!
+1 these are rad

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #31 on: December 03, 2013, 08:38:49 AM »
i only have one.  machu picchu.

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« Reply #32 on: December 03, 2013, 10:58:24 AM »
This is fun!  My list is pretty paltry right now, but I'm 29, we could call it my 20s bucketlist and I can really work on nailing my 30s one.

[X] Bike a century
[X] Finish grad school
[X] Go bike camping (only one night, would love to do more)
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[ ] Get published in peer-reviewed journal (in progress although I'm not first author)
[ ] Do one pull-up
[ ] Do 20 real pushups
[ ] Benchpress 65 lbs 3x5
[ ] Teach my dog to walk politely on a loose leash (will accept professional help!)
[ ] Canter over four consecutive jumps (dependent upon my instructors faith in the class)

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« Reply #33 on: December 03, 2013, 11:23:36 AM »
That's only me, but I hate bucket lists because they are procrastination tools. I want to live my life here and now, not in the future, when I don't have kids at home, or a mortgage, or after I lose 20 pounds, or after I reach FI, or when...While it is nice and important to have dreams and plan for the future, I don't want my dreams to get in the way of what comes in front of me unexpectedly, good or bad. This being said, I'd like to experience how it feels to be in jail for a while and be freed...

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #34 on: December 03, 2013, 12:48:02 PM »
have a six pack

Took me a minute to realize you meant the six pack you get at the gym and not the one you buy at a gas station.

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #35 on: December 03, 2013, 02:18:54 PM »
Here are a few of my big ones:

See Machu Picchu
See the Aurora Borealis
Swim with dolphins
See Killer Whales in the wild
Drink a bottle of home-grown wine in every wine-making region fo France
Hike across Scotland
Make the Everest base-camp trek
Learn Italian
Write a novel
Make homemade Boullibaisse
Learn to cook Paella
Waltz at a ball in Vienna
Visit Cuba
Visit New Zealand
See a volcano errupting


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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #36 on: December 03, 2013, 02:58:17 PM »
Swim with dolphins

It is awesome.  Just (and this is just because I'm judging by your alias on the site ;) ) wear a ONE piece bathing suit.  My wife wore a two piece. After the swim she had a one piece, the top.  Fortunately it was in a pool (a very large pool) and not in the open water.  :-)

I don't really have a bucket list.  Mine is more of a procrastination list.  I figure if I keep procrastinating it'll keep me going and I'll live forever.

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« Reply #37 on: December 03, 2013, 03:06:47 PM »
Here are a few of my big ones:

See Machu Picchu
See the Aurora Borealis
Swim with dolphins
See Killer Whales in the wild
Drink a bottle of home-grown wine in every wine-making region fo France
Hike across Scotland
Make the Everest base-camp trek
Learn Italian
Write a novel
Make homemade Boullibaisse
Learn to cook Paella
Waltz at a ball in Vienna
Visit Cuba
Visit New Zealand
See a volcano errupting

If you come to Yellowknife to see the Aurora Borealis, you can kill three more birds with the same stone. I can teach you Italian (Italian dad), make a bouillabaisse (raised in Provence), and a paella (Mom's Spaniard)!

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #38 on: December 03, 2013, 11:43:51 PM »
I can teach you Italian (Italian dad)
Tuo padre è nato in Italia?

Also to MissStache, what would constitute 'learning Italian' for you? Three words? Basic hello and goodbye conversations? Or do you REALLY want to be able to speak the language?

I've been learning Italian for 2,5 years now (class once a week plus homework and individual studying of which I should do far more) and there's still a LOT to learn. Granted, I could go much faster but the classes are a nice social activity and there's family, work and sports as well battling for my time.

Learning Italian is on my bucket list as well, I'm currently at PLIDA level A1 (see http://www.plida.it/plida/certificazione/che-cose-la-certificazione.html) and going for A2 level in May.

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #39 on: December 04, 2013, 06:04:37 AM »
Sleep through the night without being woken up, or waking up, once
Have a dog that does not ever pee in the house
Get my 9-year-old out of my bed and into his own
Teach the kids to do their own laundry
Have someone cook me dinner

Mmmm, that's all I can think of in the moment.  I'm such a dreamer!

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« Reply #40 on: December 04, 2013, 06:07:20 AM »
Sleep through the night without being woken up, or waking up, once
Have a dog that does not ever pee in the house
Get my 9-year-old out of my bed and into his own
Teach the kids to do their own laundry
Have someone cook me dinner

Mmmm, that's all I can think of in the moment.  I'm such a dreamer!

Lol.  Love it.

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« Reply #41 on: December 04, 2013, 06:46:58 AM »
Swim with dolphins

It is awesome.  Just (and this is just because I'm judging by your alias on the site ;) ) wear a ONE piece bathing suit.  My wife wore a two piece. After the swim she had a one piece, the top.  Fortunately it was in a pool (a very large pool) and not in the open water.  :-)

I don't really have a bucket list.  Mine is more of a procrastination list.  I figure if I keep procrastinating it'll keep me going and I'll live forever.

HAHA!  Good tip- thank you!

If you come to Yellowknife to see the Aurora Borealis, you can kill three more birds with the same stone. I can teach you Italian (Italian dad), make a bouillabaisse (raised in Provence), and a paella (Mom's Spaniard)!

I'm packing my car right now!  I'll be there in what?  Like three days?

Also to MissStache, what would constitute 'learning Italian' for you? Three words? Basic hello and goodbye conversations? Or do you REALLY want to be able to speak the language?

I've been learning Italian for 2,5 years now (class once a week plus homework and individual studying of which I should do far more) and there's still a LOT to learn. Granted, I could go much faster but the classes are a nice social activity and there's family, work and sports as well battling for my time.


I want it to be good enough that when my car breaks down outside of a farm in Tuscany, the Nonnina who lives there can take me under her wing, teach me how to make olive oil, and introduce me to her handsome and dashing grandson!

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #42 on: December 04, 2013, 07:58:27 AM »
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I kinda "collect" places I've slept. Not all have been on purpose, but it's getting to the point where I will sleep somewhere just for the experience of it. The most exciting place so far has been lying down in the middle of 100,000 standing people (yes actually that many) at a Tom Petty concert. Woke up with a bruise on my torso in the middle of "American Girl"

Bonnaroo?

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« Reply #43 on: December 04, 2013, 08:45:27 PM »
Stole some of yours, and how long can you know someone before they are no longer a stranger?  30 seconds?  30 minutes?  3 hours?

stay overnight in a stranger's house
contact that couple that were telling me about how to get a job on a yacht
run into someone that i met on one continent on another continent without any prior planning
hitchhike
pick up hitchhiker
slow travel internationally for at least a year
build and live in a tiny house
take in a stray dog
helicopter skiing
financial independence
get over my fear of scuba diving
learn a musical instrument
learn to play poker profitably
road trip via motorcycle
take my mother/father on an international trip (separately)
climb 5.13 on 6 continents
bolt to bolt a 5.14
climb el captain
make money directly from software that i've written

make money doing freelance work - completed 2/14
sex outside - completed 5/14
climbing road trip with a lady friend - completed 5/14
sneak into an event social engineering style - bonnaroo 2015!
help encourage someone else to take the plunge and quit their jobs to go adventure - several in progress

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Re: What's on your bucket list?
« Reply #44 on: December 05, 2013, 07:39:20 AM »
run into someone that i met on one continent on another continent without any prior planning
build sneak into an event social engineering style

Oh, I did the first!  It's crazy when you recognize them.  Met a classmate from US in Europe (in a country I was not studying in at the time).  Better yet though was another classmate in the same program ran into a middle school friend.  Small world.  Just like earlier this week a high school friend of mine from CA, living in WA now, asked if I had heard of my husband's hometown in MA because she had made friends with a retired couple from there.  Turns out the husband in the couple taught 6th grade science to my husband.

What does the second mean?

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sneak into an event social engineering style
What does the second mean?

Sneaking into a party and bluff your way that you belong there.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security)
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I kinda "collect" places I've slept. Not all have been on purpose, but it's getting to the point where I will sleep somewhere just for the experience of it. The most exciting place so far has been lying down in the middle of 100,000 standing people (yes actually that many) at a Tom Petty concert. Woke up with a bruise on my torso in the middle of "American Girl"

Bonnaroo?
yeah

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Stole some of yours, and how long can you know someone before they are no longer a stranger?  30 seconds?  30 minutes?  3 hours?
qualification for me would be to want a place to sleep, and to find someone I've never met (IRL, internet, or otherwise) who will let me stay at their place within the day. yeah they probably wouldn't be a stranger by the time you actually get there.

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run into someone that i met on one continent on another continent without any prior planning
this would be crazy. definitely on my list now.

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« Reply #47 on: February 23, 2014, 08:20:45 PM »
My life goal is to be the kind of person who is interviewed on my favorite NPR shows, On Being or On Point.  Someone who is articulate, thoughtful, well read, creative, humble and has a life full of amazing experiences.

And to live in a house with transoms, the kind with 8 lays of paint that you can wiggle open and let in a cross breeze.


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« Reply #48 on: February 23, 2014, 11:19:08 PM »
Hike the AT
Climb all Colorado 14ers
Climb Kili
Hike to Everest Base Camp
Live on a cruising sailboat

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« Reply #49 on: February 24, 2014, 12:37:47 PM »
Drink a bottle of home-grown wine in every wine-making region fo France

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They drink their way around the vineyards of France in season One.
The next season they are in an RV tooling around California's wineries.
The final season has them finding the best drink in Britain.